Shout-out to my fellow Dakhnis for boosting my post lol

Revisiting Gramsci's Prison Notebooks -- what are people's favorite essays in there?

An idea I've been toying with lately: "Perhaps, historians might come to think of World War 2 as defined by nations rushing to replicate the 'American model' and all of its associated brutalities at what seemed to be the last moment to defy the emerging American hegemony."

An idea I've been toying with lately: "Perhaps, historians might come to think of World War 2 as defined by nations rushing to replicate the 'American model' and all of its associated brutalities at what seemed to be the last moment to defy the emerging American hegemony."

The settler visions developed in this "Brazilian laboratory" would go on to fuel the settler colonial projects enacted by both Japan and Germany during WWII. Those projects were part of broader efforts to establish an alternative economic order to the emerging US-led one.

@bucephalus424 You may be interested; very similar to what Tara Zahra discusses.

Similarly, in Germany, the Brazilian diaspora, which was one of the largest German diaspora, & its settler lifestyle was viewed as an alternative to demeaning industrial labor, particularly industrial work in the United States that also threatened the national identity of Germans

An interesting historical theme is how both Japan and Germany saw Brazil as a "settler colonial laboratory." Japanese settlers in Brazil acted as part of the broader imperial project and promoted settler colonial visions in Southeast Asia in the 1930s and 1940s.

Timothy Mellon, a descendant of Gilded Age dynastic capitalism, being a key Trump backer is very interesting. Gels well with Cooper's argument that Trumpism is backed by factions of capital that use family incorporation to shield themselves from regulation and taxation.

Learning today that all of higher ed infrastructure is just Amazon Web Services

The funny thing about the n + 1 editor drama is that literally a week ago I was telling my friends I wanted to someday edit n + 1 or a similar magazine:

@AspiringAntel What a mood.

"well the oscillation between me sounding orientalist in one message and a proponent of the subaltern methodology in another reflects the uncertainties I am grappling with while working on my dissertation" - @AspiringAntel

can everyone start listening to the oh hellos again. but not soldier poet king. listen to constellations and bitter water. please

One of the most underrated and unambiguously positive reforms under MBS has been the rationalization and opening of the Saudi archives. It's led to great new historical scholarship

There's a similar thing in Reynolds' Christianity and the Qu'ran, in which he tries to argue that the Qu'ran originated in a predominantly Christian environment, Faced with little textual evidence for his claims, he starts sounding almost conspiratorial.

This eventually collapses to bizarre vibes based analysis as they desperately try to ignore all evidence that lies outside the (often totally inapplicable) concept they've chosen.

My prof & I were talking about this earlier. A major issue in historiography of early Islam is that scholars play a game where they try matching everything in the Qu'ran to a single external influence (in Hagarism, it's Jewish messianism) rather than reading it on its own terms.

"hagarism" is a hilarious book, it starts out with this thin gesture like "we are doing super sophisticated philology stuff; you wouldn't get it" and then 50 pages later it's like "we penetrated to the spiritual genius of the peoples by communing with their vibes"

The Revolutionary Mediterranean is so back: